Naughty Aucklanders

[awa355]

Anything new here? Dont think so.

Makes me glad I'm in a small town. There was some discussion a few years ago about putting on a parking warden for two hours a day. They haven't yet.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10893026

[oneofsix]

Anything new here? Dont think so.

Makes me glad I'm in a small town. There was some discussion a few years ago about putting on a parking warden for two hours a day. They haven't yet.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10893026

These councils, and it is not just Auckland, so badly over spend that they rely on these fines to balance the books.
Stupid thing is it probably costs them more to put the traps in place, police them, maintain them and administration than they make out of them. But that possibly comes out of another budget so the idiots don't manage to put the two together to notice that it is a lose lose.

[trustme]

Watch out for ' the asian gentleman ' in Newmarket. Our gang truck was registered but the mechanic had inadvertantly tucked the new label behind the old one = $200
I had to do a delivery to the event cinema with my van & trailer . the loading zone is covered in scaffolding . I stop in the broken arse carpark for 5 mins while we unload = $150 each for car & trailer. Little arsehole could see what we were doing, wrote the tickets from a distance, he knew better than to try & hand them to me.
Elliot St at 4.00am in the morning , we had worked all night & I bring the van around so I can load up gear, ticketed while I'm inside.

I hate parking wardens.

[unstuck]

Anything new here? Dont think so.

Makes me glad I'm in a small town. There was some discussion a few years ago about putting on a parking warden for two hours a day. They haven't yet.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10893026

Even Gore has its own parking warden dude. SHE is a bit of a fiesty BLOKE too. But then we have heaps of free parking around town too.

[misterO]

As bad as Auckland is, Dunedin is worse. The likelihood of getting a parking ticket there is a thousand times greater.

[unstuck]

As bad as Auckland is, Dunedin is worse. The likelihood of getting a parking ticket there is a thousand times greater.

Yeah, that place sux for parking.:yes:

[Swoop]

The base-issue here is the fact that not enough of the parasites are being stabbed.

[Akzle]

I hate parking wardens.

dude they provide a valuable civic service. If everyone could just go around doing stuff without fear of overlording government interference...
Well! Just what kind of place do you think it would be!

I rest my suitcase.

[awa355]

dude they provide a valuable civic service. If everyone could just go around doing stuff without fear of overlording government interference...
Well! Just what kind of place do you think it would be!

I rest my suitcase.

YOU!!!! supporting public service?? ;);) You do have a point tho'.

[scissorhands]

dude they provide a valuable civic service. If everyone could just go around doing stuff without fear of overlording government interference...
Well! Just what kind of place do you think it would be!

I rest my suitcase.

one minute its fuck the system, next minute its this, but yeah I agree in principle, but when there is no shortage of parking, imposing limits seems a step too far

[Akzle]

fuck. Do i really need to engage sarcarm font?

Come on....it's a rort youre thrice paying for.

Just de register 'your vehicle'

[scumdog]

What's a parking warden???:msn-wink::bleh:

[scumdog]

Just de register 'your vehicle'

Leave such a vehicle around here and it's 'Hi-ho, off to the scrap-man we go'.

Must be a bastard to get back to your vehicle - to find i's not there.

(A bit of a conumdrum there I feel...)

[Big Dave]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUha9kpjLUo&feature=share&list=PL5447B64D90FBE388

[Gremlin]

Try being ticketed when you're legal. Got one around the handlebar for not displaying current rego. It was current, and it was on display, if the gormless twit had looked at my plate for 2 seconds.

Council insisted I write in (when I rang), which I refused, telling them they're not wasting my time with their stupidity. Sent a pic via email as a compromise. Still took an hour of my time to fix a morons 1min of stupidity.

I agree... more need to be stabbed. Fuckers.

[unstuck]

What's a parking warden???:msn-wink::bleh:

Thats right, yours is still a hick town. Not even a roundabout yet is there?:lol:

[Swoop]

What's a parking warden???:msn-wink::bleh:

A knife receptacle. (we can only live and hope...)

[unstuck]

Here you go BD.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6byZL0c_0CY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>:2thumbsup:lol:

[scumdog]

Thats right, yours is still a hick town. Not even a roundabout yet is there?:lol:

Or traffic lights - or parking meters...:bleh:

(And we did have one roundabout - but got rid of it, pesky thing...)

[awa355]

What's a parking warden???:msn-wink::bleh:

This is a parking warden.

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[Big Dave]

Thats right, yours is still a hick town. Not even a roundabout yet is there?:lol:


Ahh - the kettle calling a kettle a kettle.

[unstuck]

We dont have any traffic lights yet either, but we do have 4 roundabouts and a heap of meters. Some truck driver is not very good though, cos they keep going across the garden on the one by the bridge.:whistle:

[unstuck]

Ahh - the kettle calling a kettle a kettle.

We cant all be hicks, just our mayor. And even he has a girly name. But dont tell him I said that, cos he has all my firewood on his place.:sweatdrop

[Gremlin]

This is a parking warden.

Bull.. ain't never seen one looking like that. Plus they usually have stuff around the belt and that... That bikini would never stay up with the ticketing machine etc.

Not altogether a bad thing

[Road kill]

If people didn't illegally park they wouldn't get tickets.

Mind you I've had two parking tickets myself and I was only a little over both times so I'm all for them getting called a "little curry muncher cunt",,or something like that.

The ones in Hamilton are getting cameras so they can record people yelling at them an shit.

New TV on Monday nights,,"Footpath Patrol" bought to you for your viewing pleasure by GOV'T Brain Washing and social enginering services LTD.

This has been another Flatfoot production.

[trustme]

What frustrates people is that the emphasis is on revenue gathering rather than enforcing rules.

[Road kill]

What frustrates people is that the emphasis is on revenue gathering rather than enforcing rules.

Revenue gathering is the tool they use to enforce the rules.

It's not like anything else works.

The emphasis is on maintaining and controlling traffic flow,nothing else.

[oneofsix]

This is a parking warden.


they are meter maids not parking wardens. When they have tried similar ideas here the councils get all upset, just goes to prove they make more revue out of the tickets than the meters.

[Banditbandit]

If people didn't illegally park they wouldn't get tickets.



Yeah - just like speeding. I'm always amused by people who want harsher prison sentences ... then complain bitterly when they get smacked themselves for breaking the law ...

[misterO]

Well, here's the dealio on that: I show up to a downtown appointment on time but am almost always told to wait. This goes for the dental visit, haircut, accountant, etc. I pride myself on punctuality so more often than not, running late isn't my fault. I once ran into the Warehouse to pick up a few things but found out at the cash register that they hadn't bothered to put a bar code on half the stuff I'd grabbed. By the time they ran a price check on everything I had a parking ticket. When I overstay there is a fine. When I come back early- is there a refund? Nope. I don't get parking tickets often, but whenever I return and see one on my windshield I've been out doing what the council wants people to do: spending money downtown. Thanks to hyper vigilant parking wardens I make an effort to stay out of the downtown area. Shopping on the Internet is cheaper in so many ways...

[Banditbandit]

Shopping on the Internet is cheaper in so many ways...

Well fuck me .. a moaner who eventually finds an answer to the problem ...

[awa355]

I'm waiting to see the technology arrive from overseas. Parking meters that take a snapshot of the front number plate when the meter clicks back to expired, and the meter that automaticly resets the time left to zero once a car pulls away from the meter, so noone else can use those remaining minutes.

Anyway parking wardens aren't any thing new. 284364

[unstuck]

How is that going to work with the likes of these fancy multi parking facilitys though, you know the ones that cover 5 0r 6 parking bays?

[Road kill]

Yeah - just like speeding. I'm always amused by people who want harsher prison sentences ... then complain bitterly when they get smacked themselves for breaking the law ...

Yeah an I'm always amused with people that don't recognise TIC no matter how obvious it is when they see it.

[Mom]

If people didn't illegally park they wouldn't get tickets.

I scored a nasty ticket for parking on yellow lines, I had no idea they were there as there was ALWAYS cars parked over them. I just thought I got lucky to find a spot and ducked in. I was there for 10 mins max, came and found the ticket. Pissed me right off, I HAtE paying parking fines, but my own dumb fault so I coughed. The very next week a contractor came and painted out the yellow lines black. FFS!

:killingme